Cover of Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time

Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time

by Eavan Boland · 1995

+ Want to read

Eavan Boland beautifully uncovers the powerful drama of how these lives affect one another; how the tradition of womanhood and the historic vocation of the poet act as revealing illuminations of the other.

Subject
biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thisliterary criticismliterary criticismMore like thisLess of this
Themes
feminismfeminismMore like thisLess of thiswriterswritersMore like thisLess of this
Setting
20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisIrelandIrelandMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 272 pages
Form
poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of thisessaysessaysMore like thisLess of this

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare pricesHardcover

Liked Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Poems 1968-1998 Paul Muldoon · 2001 Shares poetry, irish
  2. Century of Clouds Bruce Boone · 2009 Shares poetry, memoir, nonfiction
  3. The Redress of Poetry Seamus Heaney · 1995 Shares poetry, nonfiction, irish
  4. By Myself D.A. Powell, David Trinidad · 2009 Shares poetry, memoir
See more recommendations →

“People who read Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time tend to reach for these next.”

  1. The Life of Poetry Muriel Rukeyser · 1968
  2. Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry Jane Hirshfield · 1997
  3. No Language Is Neutral Dionne Brand · 1990
  4. The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux · 1997

“If you want more of the same (biography about feminism), start with these.”

  1. Selected Poems Patrick Kavanagh · 1997
  2. Collected Poems in English and French Samuel Beckett · 1961
  3. 1,000 Years of Irish Poetry · 1986
  4. The Astrakhan Cloak Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill · 1992

“If it was the poetry that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Book of Jon Eleni Sikelianos · 2004
  2. Bikeman: An Epic Poem Thomas F. Flynn · 2008
  3. Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities Kazim Ali · 2009
  4. To Be the Poet Maxine Hong Kingston · 2002

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Wintering Out Seamus Heaney · 1972
  2. Calling in today's world Kathleen A. Cahalan · 2016
  3. What Matters Most Luanne Rice · 2007
  4. Parochial and Plain Sermons [Complete] John Henry Newman · 1987

Report a problem